One peculiar property of this--incidentally, at every point of time this thing holds, this is time to maturity.

顺便说一下这个公式一个特别的性质,这个等式在任何时候都成立,这是贷款剩余期限

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The loan-to-value ratio--well it's not so much the loan--the maturity was short and the balloon payment at the end that they changed.

贷款价值比率,不,就是期限太短了,期末大额偿还也是罪魁祸首

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So, that's a funny property of conventional mortgages -that the mortgage balance declines very slowly at first and then it falls rapidly when it comes to maturity.

这是普通贷款很有意思的特性,即贷款余额在起初减少的非常缓慢,但随着到期日的临近,便会加速递减

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Meanwhile, ECB Chief Trichet indicated that the central bank would cooperate with a plan to allow Greek creditors to rollover debt at maturity.

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Proceeds from a bond will need to be reinvested at maturity.

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Prices jumped on the bid with the bonds trading up to around 65 cents on the dollar in hope that bonds would be settled at maturity.

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